--- title: "Vallecas – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Vallecas, Spain: Vallecas was a municipality of Spain that disappeared as such in 1950, when its annexation to the municipality of Madrid took place.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vallecas" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vallecas.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Cabeza_Olmeca_Ensanche_de_Vallecas_01.jpg/1920px-Cabeza_Olmeca_Ensanche_de_Vallecas_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Neighborhood of Madrid, Spain # Vallecas Vallecas was a municipality of Spain that disappeared as such in 1950, when its annexation to the municipality of Madrid took place. ![Vallecas](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Cabeza_Olmeca_Ensanche_de_Vallecas_01.jpg/1920px-Cabeza_Olmeca_Ensanche_de_Vallecas_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Vallecas · Javier Pérez Montes The place Vallecas was a municipality of Spain that disappeared as such in 1950, when its annexation to the municipality of Madrid took place. Nowadays, the territory is shared between two districts: Puente de Vallecas and Villa de Vallecas. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallecas), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Vallecas 5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas is a football stadium in the Madrid district of Puente de Vallecas, Spain. Up until 2026, it has hosted football matches as the home of Primera Division club Rayo Vallecano. 3.7 km · football stadium · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallecas_Stadium) 2. Caja Mágica Caja Mágica, also known as the Manzanares Park Tennis Center, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Madrid, Spain. Since 2009, it has been the home of the Madrid Open tennis tournament. 5.9 km · sports arena · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_M%C3%A1gica) 3. La Almudena Cemetery The Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena, former Necrópolis del Este is a cemetery in Madrid, Spain. It is the largest in Western Europe. 4.5 km · cemetery in Madrid · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cementerio_de_la_Almudena) 4. Torrespaña Torrespaña is a 232 m high reinforced concrete freestanding broadcasting tower in Madrid, Spain. It is the central and main transmission node of the terrestrial television and radio networks in the country as well as the station that covers the city and its metropolitan area. 5.8 km · Telecommunications Tower of Madrid, Spain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrespa%C3%B1a) 5. Madrid Spain Temple The Madrid Spain Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in the Pavones neighborhood of Moratalaz, Madrid. Announced on April 4, 1993, by Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the church's First Presidency, during general conference, it became the first temple in Spain and the seventh in Europe. 2.3 km · Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Madrid, Spain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Spain_Temple) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Vallecas **Airports:** Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 13 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 259 km · Valencia (VLC), 285 km\ **Stations:** Pacífico, 5.3 km · Menéndez Pelayo, 5.9 km · Alto del Arenal, 2.5 km · Nueva Numancia, 4.1 km · Portazgo, 3.8 km\ - Valencia → Vallecas 297 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · €35–49 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/valencia-to-vallecas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Valencia&to=Vallecas) - Zaragoza → Vallecas 270 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €32–44 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zaragoza-to-vallecas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zaragoza&to=Vallecas) - Bilbao → Vallecas 325 km · quickest by air, 3h 25m · €90–130 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bilbao-to-vallecas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bilbao&to=Vallecas) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Vallecas) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Vallecas Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vallecas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in A somewhat unusual means of transportation is the cable car, that links Argüelles with the Casa de Campo (zoo and theme park) while offering a great view of the city. From [Wikivoyage: Madrid/Moncloa](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Madrid%2FMoncloa), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Chefchaouen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chefchaouen) MA 8 ways of moving, 30 sources 597 km 2. [Merzouga and Erg Chebbi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/merzouga) MA 8 ways of moving, 41 sources 1,033 km 3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 1,113 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 1,160 km 5. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 1,171 km If you know how people move in Vallecas – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cvallecas&title=Vallecas&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fvallecas), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Vallecas Vallecas is 8 km from [Madrid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/madrid), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Retiro](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/retiro) 3rd city district of Madrid, Spain 5.8 km - [Villa de Vallecas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/villa-de-vallecas) 18th city district of Madrid, Spain 600 m - [San Blas-Canillejas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/san-blas-canillejas) 20th city district of Madrid, Spain 4.8 km - [Puente de Vallecas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puente-de-vallecas) 13th city district of Madrid, Spain 4.7 km - [Moratalaz](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/moratalaz) 14th city district of Madrid, Spain 3.8 km - [Vicálvaro](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vicalvaro) 19th city district of Madrid, Spain 2.4 km [The place page for Vallecas](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/vallecas) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Spain](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-ES) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vallecas, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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